Iris von Roten

Iris von Roten-Meyer (2 April 1917 – 11 September 1990) was a Swiss journalist, writer, feminist and jurist.

She was the editor of the women's paper Schweizer Frauenblatt in 1943–1945. She was a feminist, inspired by Simone de Beauvoir. She is most known for her feminist work Frauen im Laufgitter: the book received such a massive negative critic and hostility that she was blamed for the fact that the proposal of women suffrage was voted down in 1959. She left Switzerland as a result of the backlash against her.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gatten, Emma (25 September 2015). "Swiss Suffragettes Were Still Fighting for the Right to Vote in 1971". Independent. Retrieved 28 February 2016.


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